Coming to this album for the first time after being a huge KB fan since I was 16. Not exactly a revelation on the level of finding another chapter of Ulysses, but more like hearing from an old friend you were really close to but hadn't heard from in a while. She could sing the alphabet in a certain tone of voice and I would listen.
Gonna give Aerial another listen as I kind of dismissed it when it came out as "boring".
― I like tv random anything (corey), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
"Big Stripey Lie"!
― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I never warmed to this album for the same reason I never warmed to Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues--the thin, clattery production.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
tho i will rep for some of the tracks on this in a huge way, i will never understand what happened to the production here, or on a lot of the sensual world. coming off the heels of the albums previous, i just don't get it. it's like she understood this making aerial, and turned around and produced something in the warmest, least clattering way possible.
― janice (surm), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"moments of pleasure" is beautiful
i haven't listened to this album in over a decade and don't recall anything else on it :/
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
not to overly toot my own horn but I'm covering this on OWOB this week.
― katherine, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
I can't wait! I adore this record.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
What's this?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
i've said this elsewhere but "top of the city" is probably my favorite kate bush song
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
and this record >>>>>> the sensual world
^^^ my boo
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
It's as uneven but the ease with which I can jump around and find something for any mood ("Big Stripey Lie" for an old-school Bush fix, "Top of the City" for Side B-HOL intensnity, "Rubberband Girl" for heavenly pop hit) give TRS the nod imo.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
don't want your bullshitjust want your sexuality
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 12 August 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
"and this record >>>>>> the sensual world"
no way. but I do like this album more these days than I did when it came out (or any time since).
― akm, Monday, 12 August 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
omigodit's a jungle out there
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
this sense of humor of mineit isn't funny at all
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
"uneven" i suppose but i think i love every song on this record at this point
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
LIKE A POMEGRANATEINSIDES OUT
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
currently assembling a queer identity theory of "eat the music"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
"constellation of the heart" is i guess poppy and funky but then she has a weird conversation with the choir
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
the Prince collab is one of the duds.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
nah
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
What one's the Prince collaboration? <3 Constellation so much.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
"Why Should I Love You"
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
i like how ecstatic "why should i love you" is. fun to kinda flail around to
it doesn't live up to the idea of prince/kate but if you ignore that
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
the Prince song "My Computer" (dedicated to Kate Bush) is sweeter
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
i was reminded of "my computer" very recently by an incoherent piece about prince and computers in the awl. made the day great
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
why should I love you might have been better with Prince bothering to do the actual vocals instead of Lenny Henry pretending to be Prince. Maybe not.
― akm, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
promised I wouldn't do this but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbP-dapt09Q
― katherine, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
In Possessed Alex Hahn recounts Prince's conscientious, patient slaughter of Bush's demo.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
katherine is killing it: http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/tagged/kate_bush/chrono
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 August 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
katherine this is really amazing, holy crap
― -- A smile on a dog, Stephen answered, (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 16 August 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
why should i love you is definitely the takeaway here
― surm, Friday, 16 August 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
this is finished -- and thanks!
― katherine, Monday, 19 August 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
having never known about an alternate version until now, that demo is ten times better than what prince did. not sure why she even wanted prince to do anything to that song anyway.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 25 April 2016 10:08 (eight years ago) link
She didn't really want him to do much: http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/how-prince-met-kate-bush-and-made-why-should-i-love-you.
Bush asked Prince to contribute a few background vocals to a song called “Why Should I Love You”, which she had just recorded in full at Abbey Road Studios. But when Prince received the track, he ignored the intructions and dismantled the entire thing like a crazed mechanic taking apart old cars on his backyard. He wanted to inject himself into the very heart of it, weaving his sound amongst her sound, giving it a new soul entirely. As Koppelman explains, “We essentially created a new song on a new piece of tape and then flew all of Kate's tracks back on top of it… Prince stacked a bunch of keys, guitars, bass, etc, on it, and then went to sing background vocals.”
Maybe she was just too polite to turn it down? (I actually like both versions, even though the Prince one is a little bonkers.)
― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Monday, 25 April 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link
the timeline of this doesn't really match up, but I wonder whether it was prince or kate who was responsible for the album version not being about sex with jesus
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 25 April 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
she's no good for you babyshe's no good for you now
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 December 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
my favorite kate bush song
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 25 December 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, August 12, 2013 12:53 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh look
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 25 December 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
where just a couple of pigeons are livin'
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 December 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
I really enjoyed that katherine thanks for writing it
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 December 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
absolutely love moments of pleasure
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 25 December 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
I’ve often thought of doing a poll: This Woman’s Work vs Moments of Pleasure. I would be upset if Moments lost... so no go.
― Woon... Doopee Time (FlopsyDuck), Monday, 25 December 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
belated, thanks!
my favorite track from this at the moment's probably lily, which says a lot about 2017
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 28 December 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
album has aged better than I expected; I loved it when it came out then went through a long period of thinking it was really duff. but really the only duff track on this is Constellation of the Heart I think, now.
― akm, Thursday, 28 December 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link